Lean and Six Sigma​Glossary​

The waste hierarchy is a common tool used in green and environmentally focused organizations. The tool helps to rank the different options that you could select when managing waste. As you can see the highest priority is shown at the top and descends as shown below:

Prevention

Reuse

Recycle

Recover

Disposal

Challenge:

In the comments section below list one way you could prevent waste, one way you can reuse some items, one way you could begin recycling and one way you can recover some materials, energy or value from waste.